Leading Health Indicators and Objectives
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Leading Health Indicators
Healthy People 2020 contains 42 topic areas, nearly 600 objectives, which encompass 1,200 measures.
A smaller set of Healthy People 2020 objectives, called Leading Health Indicators(LHIs), has been selected to communicate high-priority health issues and actions that can be taken to address them.
Tobacco LHIs
The Tobacco Use Leading Health Indicators are:
- Adults who are current cigarette smokers
- Adolescents who smoked cigarettes in the past 30 days
- Children aged 3 to 11 years exposed to secondhand smoke
Tobacco Use Objectives
Tobacco Use
- TU–1: Adult tobacco use
- TU–2: Adolescent tobacco use
- TU–3: Initiation of tobacco use
- TU–4: Smoking cessation attempts by adults
- TU–5: Adult success in smoking cessation
- TU–6: Smoking cessation during pregnancy
- TU–7: Smoking cessation attempts by adolescents
Health Systems Changes
- TU–8: Medicaid coverage for smoking cessation
- TU–9: Tobacco screening in health care settings
- TU–10: Tobacco cessation counseling in health care settings
Social and Environmental Changes
- TU–11: Exposure to secondhand smoke
- TU–12: Indoor worksite smoking policies
- TU–13: Smoke-free indoor air laws
- TU–14: Smoke-free homes
- TU–15: Tobacco-free schools
- TU–16: Preemptive tobacco control laws
- TU–17: Tobacco tax
- TU–18: Exposure of adolescents and young adults to advertising and promotion
- TU–19: Enforcement of illegal sales to minors laws
- TU–20: Evidence-based tobacco control programs
- TU–21: Tax stamps
To obtain the full objective text visit the Healthy People 2020 website.
- Page last reviewed: March 21, 2017
- Page last updated: March 21, 2017
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